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#1 Re: News & Announcements » Daedalus is stable » 2023-08-18 06:48:15

3 machines upgraded with daedalus - absolutely no problems so far. Big thank to the Devuan-Team!

Regards
Berni

#2 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Fixing broken Brother DCP-L3510CDW Printer Installation (howto) » 2023-02-04 09:53:16

Great & interesting, thanks for sharing.
We have a pool of 6 Brother DCPJ525W, all running as networkprinters via a Devuan print server. This works well with the Brother Linux drivers, however our printers are getting old and I am just looking for the next Brother generation.

Sleep well, you*ve earned it.

Berni

#3 Re: ARM Builds » PeppermintOS Devuan arm64 possible testing. » 2023-01-26 09:02:34

Thank you. Is it possible to show me a download link here, as I am not active in Matrix.

Berni

#5 Re: ARM Builds » PeppermintOS Devuan arm64 possible testing. » 2023-01-22 17:12:04

Is it worth trying Peppermint on a BananaPi M5?

#6 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-01-11 08:59:26

Believe it or not, but for my daily drivers, my printservers, camservers and NFS-servers there is nothing I'm missing. I use Chimaera ans 2 Daedalus installations and everything I need is in the repositories. It was never necessary to compile a program from source. So I'm quite happy with Devuan. Maybe I'm unpretentious, but thats my situation. 

Regards
Berni

#7 Re: ARM Builds » Call for testers! ARM64 NetInstall ISO » 2022-12-15 16:36:28

I think to remember that my BananaPi boots legacy.

#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Slim not showing on my main screen, laptop's own screen is broken » 2022-10-29 20:50:55

At first I had to enter name and password blind, then the screen was switched to the corresponding output. Then I enabled in slim.conf the sessionstart_cmd  with the name of an executable script file, where the same xrandr commands are called. Worked fine on my old Thinkpad.

#9 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Slim not showing on my main screen, laptop's own screen is broken » 2022-10-29 06:58:50

Probably calling xrandr in your .xsession or .xinitrc may help.

Here my example on an older Thinkpad T410S:

xrandr --output VGA-1 --primary
xrandr --output LVDS-1 --off

But before simply call xrandr without any parameters, to figure out what the names for your outputs is. In above example VGA-1 is the external monitor and LVDS-1 the laptops own screen.

#10 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] I installed gnome, now I can't use XFCE » 2022-03-11 09:10:41

If you have once installed Gnome, you will have it forever. Whatever you will do beside Gnome - Gnome is already there. Scary!
Remove it as long you will be ablte to do. :-)

Berni, Gnome-hater.

#11 Re: Off-topic » Loss of a friend » 2022-03-08 08:42:54

So sad to loose a good friend!
In January I lost Yellow, a Samojede mix from Romania. He was not my dog, but I visited Yello every day and we made long walks together. In the beginning Yellow was a problematic dog and his owner, a middleaged Lady, had diffculties to hande the dog.
After some years however Yellow was one of the best dogs in town. I miss Yellow and I understand zephyr.
Still sad, Berni

#12 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] nfs trouble on Chimaera » 2022-02-20 07:50:10

Does it mean hat the rpc.mountd was not started due to the unknown option?

#13 Re: Off-topic » The seitan conundrum » 2022-02-17 15:14:45

Nice thread, and it reminds me to my macrobiotical start in the early 70s. Firstly I was a hardcore macrobiotic man, later I was more softly. However some food from this period accompanies me till today. It was one of the best choices in my life and the Oshawa cookbook has, beside others, still on its place on my shelf.

#15 Re: Installation » xorg start only as super user! why? » 2022-01-07 22:13:57

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

OpenBSD can also run startx as the normal user. But xenodm(1) is recommended for that operating system.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html#StartingX

No, the normal user without root privileges cannot start X via startx - not ex works. This has changed in 6.6 or 6.7 already. SO a dm is a MUST quasi.

#16 Re: Installation » xorg start only as super user! why? » 2022-01-07 14:22:12

You are right, off course! I had OpenBSD in my mind, where the setuid bit was removed from the X server some years ago. mad

#17 Re: Installation » xorg start only as super user! why? » 2022-01-07 08:34:59

startx need root permissions to start X. If you do not want to use ugly tricks, you must let do the display manager the job. Try it by starting, lets say slim or xdm, and the it must work.

#19 Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 09:22:14

berni51
Replies: 9

OK, this is NOT a serious question - however: Is there already a color for the corporate identity of Daedalus selected by the veterans? What will come after Gray, Red and Blue?

Regards
Berni

#20 Re: Other Issues » pxe boot hangs in busybox » 2021-12-17 11:33:00

I tried and (off course) it works. When I build my own image for my purposes this solution is good enough for me. Thanks for your kind help
Berni

#21 Re: Other Issues » pxe boot hangs in busybox » 2021-12-14 19:38:51

Thanks a lot, Ralph, I will try this tonight.

Regards
Berni

#22 Re: Other Issues » pxe boot hangs in busybox » 2021-12-14 11:26:06

Thanks @FM81. The last line in the log is the very last cry from dnsmasq:When I exit the busybox I get a warning that the /root could not be mounted. The next exit causes a kernel dump and that killed dnsmasq.

All output was logged into /var/log/dnsmasq.log. The client screen shows that the kernel is loaded and then initram.img, which ended in the busybox because the /root could not be mounted.

Regards
Berni

#23 Other Issues » pxe boot hangs in busybox » 2021-12-12 16:30:59

berni51
Replies: 5

I tried to realize a diskless client (Intel NUC). The NUC shall pxe boot chimaera_4.0.0._amd64-desktop-live.iso or chimaera-4-0-0_amd64_minimal-live.iso.
As the dnsmaq- and tftp server I selected a raspberrypi 4 with 8 GB of RAM.

So I installed dnsmasq, pxelinux and syslinux-efi and followed these instructions: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configur … oot-server. On the Pi also Devuan Chimaera is running.

Then the first boot of the NUC machine. I saw my menu with the 3 entries (desktop-live & minimal-live), I could select an entry and the the boot procedure startet. It looked like a normal Devuan start, but when the system detected the usb ports with keyboard and mouse, it hangs and I ended up in the initramfs busybox.

This happens with desktop-live as well as with minimal-live. The logfile on the Pi said:

Dec 12 13:44:34 dnsmasq[1826]: started, version 2.85 DNS disabled
Dec 12 13:44:34 dnsmasq[1826]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus no-UBus i18n IDN2 DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth cryptohash DNSSEC loop-detect inotify dumpfile
Dec 12 13:44:34 dnsmasq-dhcp[1826]: DHCP, proxy on subnet 192.168.0.0
Dec 12 13:44:34 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: TFTP root is /home/data/netboot  
Dec 12 13:46:25 dnsmasq-dhcp[1826]: PXE(eth0) 94:c6:91:11:06:22 proxy
Dec 12 13:46:30 dnsmasq-dhcp[1826]: PXE(eth0) 192.168.0.71 94:c6:91:11:06:22 bios/pxelinux.0
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: error 0 TFTP Aborted received from 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.0 to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.0 to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/ldlinux.c32 to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/7ea11317-78b9-28a5-9593-94c691110622 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/01-94-c6-91-11-06-22 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0A80047 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0A8004 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0A800 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0A80 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0A8 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0A not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C0 not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: file /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/C not found
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/default to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/vesamenu.c32 to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/libcom32.c32 to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/libutil.c32 to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:31 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/bios/pxelinux.cfg/default to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:46:52 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/boot/amd64/devuan/minimal-live/live/vmlinuz to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 13:48:46 dnsmasq-tftp[1826]: sent /home/data/netboot/boot/amd64/devuan/minimal-live/live/initrd.img to 192.168.0.71
Dec 12 14:03:23 dnsmasq[1826]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM

Any idea what's going wrong here? Did I a big mistake or are the initramfs images not suitable for pxe boot?

Regards
Berni

#25 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] migrate from Beowulf to Chimaera: dual-boot? » 2021-11-10 09:40:12

As you I use external SSDs for different systems. When I upgraded my (external) Beowulf installations, I ended up in dual-boot grub entries.
But I must say that I did not care about that during the upgrade process.

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